WANA Silk Scarf - Guava Honey

This graceful crepe silk scarf was ecoprinted/bundle-dyed with onion skins and guava leaves, and immersion dyed in mixture of noni root bark and marigolds. The color fusion of honey, yellow and grey that the plants released radiates warmth and vitality.

MATERIALS
Fabric: 100% Silk
Dye Plant: Guava leaves, Onion skins, Noni root bark, Marigolds

MEASUREMENTS
Length: 178 cm / 70 inch
Width: 35 cm / 14 inch
Edges: Hand-sewn rolled hem

EMBRACE THE SLOW PROCESS
Duration of Making-Process: 16 days
Techniques: Ecoprint / Bundle Dye and Immersion Dye
Bundle dye or ecoprint is a method of creating with botanical matters like leaves, flowers, seed pods or barks to print themselves on fabric or paper using their own dyes, pigments and tannin. Each shape of plant is unique and non-identical even with the same plant that come from the same tree. The color of the plant is often different to the color it releases or prints.

Immersion dye is a method of coloring fibers by immersing/soaking the whole or a part of the fibers into a dye bath for certain amount of time. We work with tannin-rich plants to make the colors last long.

The magic of nature plays the most vital role in the process, which makes the result of each creation a one-of-a-kind beauty and cannot be replicated.

Read more about our natural dyeing process

CARE GUIDE
Hand wash in cool water with pH neutral soap. Dissolve the soap in the water before washing. You may see some release of color in the water at your first wash but it is normal. Hang it and air dry in the shade. Iron on low temperature. Store it away from direct heat and light.

AFTER CARE
Natural/botanical dyes are not synthetic dyes and it may slightly change color or fade over time. (Honestly synthetic dyes are also fading, only that it takes longer period of time.) When properly maintained and taken care of as the aforementioned instructions, our naturally-dyed goods will last a long time.

IMPORTANT NOTE
We do our best to photograph our works and all of the photographs are taken in natural light. However, natural colors often cover more tones with more subtle shades, and please keep in mind that the colors may appear differently according to your computer screen, so slight variations in tones are to be expected.